Piso, Nicol [Nicholas LePois]
De cognoscendis et curandis praecipue internis humani corporis morbis libritres: ex classicorum medicorum tum veterum tum recentiorum monumentis non ita pridem collecti, & nunc ab eodem recogniti & aucti. Accessit eiusdem liber De febribus Francofurdi: Apud haeredes Andreae Wecheli, 1585. Very good in quarter old calf with paper-covered boards. Elaborate gilt tooling to spine. 16 leaves, 968pp, 14 leaves, 1 blank, 1 leaf. With printers device twice repeated and fine engraved portrait of the author. Octavo. Wear to paper boards and slight worming to spine; interior intact. A large collection of medical observations by the famous French physician Piso (1527-1590), who was also known by the name LePois. Piso was physician to the Duke of Lorraine, Charles III. Pisos grand work, De cognoscendid et curandis..., was first published in folio in 1580, and continued to be held in high regard through the next two centuries.
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